Corn can be cooked with carrots and lotus roots.

Foods that cannot be eaten together with corn:

Corn cannot be eaten with field snails, because eating them together is easy to cause poisoning and can cause blood fever, dryness and cough in mild cases, and nosebleeds in severe cases.

Corn cannot be eaten together with oysters, as it will hinder the absorption of zinc.

Effects and functions of cornmeal:

Corn is flat in nature and sweet in taste; it is beneficial to the lungs and heart, strengthens the spleen and appetite, prevents cancer, lowers cholesterol, and strengthens the brain.

Corn is suitable for people:

1. It is especially suitable for people with spleen and stomach qi deficiency, insufficient qi and blood, and malnutrition.

2. Suitable for people with cardiovascular diseases such as arteriosclerosis, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and coronary heart disease.

3. Suitable for people with obesity and fatty liver.

4. Suitable for cancer patients, middle-aged and elderly people, people with memory loss, habitual constipation, and chronic nephritis and edema.

5. Corn protein lacks tryptophan, and eating corn alone is prone to lyme disease. Therefore, areas where corn is the staple food should eat more legumes.